Official: Kitchen, roof and dining area scorched

8:47 PM,
Dec. 29, 2013

Cassie's Restaurant on Route 303 in Orangeburg was damaged by fire Sunday.

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A kitchen fire at Cassie's Restaurant on Route 303 caused extensive damage to the building early Sunday.

The fire broke out in the kitchen to the right side of the one-story, Mediterranean-style structure around 1 a.m. and was brought under control within 30 minutes of firefighters' arrival, said Peter Byrne, Orangeburg's assistant fire chief.